Kind of cool for a presentation deck. Sorely needs keyboard navigation support though.
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jamesrom commented on Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? retrocomputing.stackexcha... · Posted by u/SeenNotHeard
But then he goes around saying he actually found massive evidence of fraud. It’s not like he tweets: “Guys, my admittedly cursory examination gave me a feeling this old system which I’ve never seen before could be prone to fraud.”
What proof does he (or you) even have that a COBOL system is particularly prone to fraud? The world’s most important banks still run many things on COBOL. Are you saying that bank mainframes are full of IT fraud?
Who said a COBOL system is prone to fraud?
Incomplete and inaccurate data is prone to fraud. Talking about COBOL is missing the point.
jamesrom commented on Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? retrocomputing.stackexcha... · Posted by u/SeenNotHeard
Musk said: “Crazy things like just cursory examination of Social Security and we’ve got people in there that are 150 years old.”
He qualified this claim as a “cursory examination”. It’s clearly a comment about the quality of the data and systems. That this is the kind of thing that would be prone to fraud.
Before you hit downvote, please provide evidence that you didn’t hallucinate Musk’s claims here.
This is a PR maneuver that Microsoft can bring to the table to strike a deal with Apple.
They want everyone to think of the iOS + App Store as just distribution.
They want everyone to think of Xbox Cloud Gaming as a platform for developers.
The reality is the difference between these platforms is not so clear cut.
How is it disingenuous? Are you expecting Microsoft to just give the entirety of their cut to Apple? Stacking 30% cuts on top of 30% cuts does quickly make things "impossible"
It's disingenuous in that they are both platforms doing the same thing.
Apple could argue that it's Microsoft's 30% cut that makes it impossible for developers to get their games published on the App Store. That too, would be disingenuous.
But Microsoft are making a PR maneuver that they can bring to the table to strike a deal with apple.
jamesrom commented on The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania hallofdreams.org/posts/tr... · Posted by u/Philpax
They're driving non-flat maps by the end of the article and in the subsequent article. AFAIK they can only go with what they see on screen, there don't have access to camera rendering data.
I’m not saying render the scene. I’m saying take your measurements from where the camera is (or would be).
jamesrom commented on The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania hallofdreams.org/posts/tr... · Posted by u/Philpax
RL expert here, the problem with vision is that most likely, it takes too long to render and to process the render in your NN.
At that point you need to run the game real-time instead of faster, so you need a lot of compute to generate your data. You will also need the bandwidth to throw the data around, and the GPUs to take all that input size.
It's definitely possible, but not the place to start, and will require a lot more compute infrastructure.
I’m not saying render the scene. I’m saying take your measurements from where the camera is (or would be).
It would require no extra infra or compute.
jamesrom commented on The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania hallofdreams.org/posts/tr... · Posted by u/Philpax
It never made sense to me why they raycast from the car. Humans don't play this way. The car is an abstraction the model doesn't need to care about it.
It literally doesn't matter if it's 1px or 100 meters to the wall, just learn to not hit it.
Instead, measure from the _camera_. That's all that matters. That's what humans do when we play.
Bonus: with this added perspective you'll be able to drive maps with hills and jumps. Not just flat maps.
But it goes much deeper than that. Once my professor explained how many great discoveries are often paired with new notation. That new notation signifies "here's a new way to think about this problem". And that many unsolved problems today will give way to powerful notation.